My favorite sage once told me "better look out" else you won't "see" :-) This is a wanderer's wanderlust !!, an attempt to navigate through the omnipresent urban blindness, albeit without any kind compass, and yet, inadvertently and magically, stumble upon the ever elusive truth.

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Buddhist masters have a fascinating view, that everytime you have a serious debilitating mental or physical condition (say Alzhemiers, Parkinson, blood cancer, a block in your lungs, kidney failure and so on…), they believe your body is trying to tell you something, in most cases its trying to connect back to its own reality (whatever that might be), and most definitely – they urge us to view these experiences as death or “near death”, and use these experiences or inflection points to transform ourselves.

Now years ago, I felt these were hogwash or some mumbo theory. Today, older, wiser and closer to my own death – I can see that this is such a powerful advice. I wish I had understood it well enough the first time.

"My kick the bucket" list

** 1. Scale Everest.** 2. Bike down to Leh3. Publish a work of fiction.** 4. Run a 42k Marathon.5. Do a 3 month Vipaasna course6. Motor down to Leh7. Visit the Golden Temple8. Watch a Roger Waters Concert9. Write a book of poems (not necessarily publish)

(** refers to items which the defeatist in me feels I shall never achieve.....)